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Title
Crispim Soares Defends His Wife
Description
Composition in black and white. Boundary straight lines. It depicts three men with arms stretched suggesting they were screaming. In the foreground, from the left to the right, front to the bottom band suggesting sill, behind which is seen on the left, 3/4 man half-bust facing right, with coarse facial features, hair disheveled, slanted eyes turned down, represented by a triangle nose and mouth ajar; on the left arm is stretched up with open hand. On the right bust of a man, facing slightly back to the left. It also has coarse facial features and defined the same way as the first figure. wear hard collared shirt or jacket and standing with jacket lapel and has the on the right arm also stretched to the side with the open hand. Further down, on the left, man half-length, this well-outlined, facing with the indicated facial features and the on the right arm straight up. In the background three figures just suggested.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event3
Related Document3
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration no. 30 for the book O alienista, by Machado de Assis
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
India ink penArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Collection
Height
17.5
Width
19
Annotation
Signed at bottom right edge "Portinari". Undated
Annotation Author
Inscription in bottom left corner "31”
